Hi Doug, hope all is well. It's a good question, but as I found out, as Mudcat gets more and more 'open' (as in fewer people drawn here BECAUSE we're music folk) the headlines have to be much more specific to get a lot of responses.

Had you titled it:

"Is Dubya the anti-christ?" or

"Gore was cryogenically frozen BEFORE last election!" or

"Ralph Nader is Osama Bin Laudin's third cousin!"

...you'd have gotten a huge response.

However, just to throw my two cents worth in (and no surprise here)... although I find (found) Dubya to be a rather average appearing guy (although filthy rich) with an obvious inability to absorb (and hold) information of a political nature, I doubt that he's any less of a prisoner to his advisors than Gore would have been. Had Nader through some fluke become President, I think his shift to the right would have been almost instantaneous. The nature of the country is that no one can be too left or too right. Same as Canada. It simply boils down to the kind of co-operation needed from the opposition in order to get ANYTHING done.

Cheers

Rick